its beautiful out but the ground is hard. I’m able to pull right back to the piles in the old Chevy and not destroy the ground or get stuck!
Lucky... I’d like to be working wood today.... but the ground here is wet...... so I’m smoking some ribs and cleaning up some odds and ends....
Smoking ribs! I managed two loads on the porch which is a few weeks worth of wood. Now I may break out the grill myself!
I moved some wood with the tractor today. I couldn’t believe how much frost is in the ground. It’s nice not to rut up the lawn!
I just bought new tires for the truck and was praying they wouldn’t destroy the lawn. They definatly left marks but the ground is good and hard so it will vanish fast. I gave the truck a good bath today as the temps hit 50f in the sun then put it away in the garage.
Ground is soft here. Luckily I was able to find the time to load the porch a few nights ago while it was still frozen.
Ground is mush here. Scrounged this morning but I ended up rutting up my new splitting area. I wish it would freeze already. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
It's supposed to get to about 70 today, don't guess ours will freeze today. It's supposed to cool back down at the end if the week. Luckily, my cutting area is drying out a little. This is my yard behind my house and part of my circle driveway. This is UPHILL from our house.
Just getting around to posting, but I moved some wood from the shed into the basement rack Sunday. 8 wheelbarrels filled up the empty rack in the basement. Both racks in there hold 15 cold days worth. Sunny out and ground was dried out enough that it didn't get torn up. One of these days it will all be concrete and stone from the shed to the basement doors. I added the awning to the front of the shed late this summer for a little more protection from the rain / snow. Prevailing winds come up the hill from behind the shed. The rear is more open to the underneath and air flows up through the floor and under the roof to keep the air moving in there. The wood is at least a year old and mostly dry by the time it makes it to this shed. I usually reload this shed after heating season is over so the wood gets a full summer in here drying also before getting sent into the basement for its final days as wood... I'm not quite to the full 3 year plan yet, but getting there. I'm on a solid two year plan and with the 15 to 30 days it spends in the basement at 90+ degrees I'm pretty happy with it... I haven't used or even split any kindling other than slivers that come off the splitter sometimes for years. It's so dry when I put it in the stove that just a few small coals raked to the front of the stove will have a roaring fire in less than 10-15 minutes and it's time to shut down the primary air and let the secondaries take over. From inside the woodshed looking to the corner of the basement where all the hot action takes place... The stove is just inside the doors and the chimney is supported from a post down to the stone foundation of the basement and off of the TV tower... No cable or dish here, just OTA antenna with rotor and we get lots of channels from the cities 60 miles away. The chimney goes up 30' from the clean out and wall support bracket. I just roll the wheel barrel under the chimne and run the brush up from the ground. Way better than the old house where I was up on a ladder cleaning from the top down. I like these stainless insulated chimneys way better than the brick one at the old house. Even when the stove is cranking I can touch the exterior and it feels almost the same temperature as the outside ambient air. This rack is full and while it is "kiln" drying the rack behind it supplies the stove for 15 days. The old 80's era airtight stove is still sitting to the right. I was going to put it in the next shop / garage I'm planning on, but I'm thinking it uses so much wood, it might just go to the scrap yard... I like not worrying about making a mess in the living room. The concrete floor is very forgiving. The wife would be all over my butt to keep things clean if it was upstairs... LOL The Vogelzang Ponderosa "up on the pipe" with all five secondary air tubes kicking it. As you see, I don't clean the window like I would if it was upstairs...
Just to give y'all an idea how much water is running out of my yard, I shot this video of the pipe from the yard under my driveway.
I was in SW MS and they are all hollering that it has never been this wet down there. Boots were definitely required. Water or mud all over the place.
Watching that TV show "Moonshiners" makes ya wanna set up a still down in the bamboo thicket with that stream of water...
